Developed by: Capcom | Published by: Capcom

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Top notch graphical quality. It looks more realistic than the first one. A definite improvement. The quality during the pre-rendered cutscenes was especially nice.

Some new twists to the game play - 5 purple orbs to become an Onimusha, improving armor as well as weapons, having some NPCs help you...

This time they did an especially good job of making the secondary characters get involved with the main character during gameplay. Showing up to help you fight, helping you with some puzzles, taking control of them to perform side missions, giving gifts.

The optional scenario paths add a lot to replay value.

All of the usual pros of Resident Evil type games:

• Good job with authentic, realistic environment creation. Everything looks and feel real and textured.
• There are occational situations where you much work together with other characters to help each other out, which presents a sense of comradery and makes the player more emotionally attached to the characters.
• The gameplay is a unique combination of action and puzzle solving.
• All of the puzzles involve intriguing, odd, and unique items.
• The notes and letters you find all over the place give more depth to the environment.
• You travel to many different kinds of areas - japanese castles, towns, forest ares, demons worlds.
• Lots of different types of enemies, each with their own unique characteristics.

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Text instead of voice acting in many areas.

The gift giving this is kind of interesting, but it's more like a gimmik. When you get in return is completely unpredictable, and you have to guess who will like which item. It doesn't tie into the game play or the storyline. The collecting art pieces thing is also a gimmik that doesn't tie into the plot or game play at all.

When you go into a dark red-lit area, it is often difficult to tell which character is you and which are the enemies.

It's very difficult to tell what will cause a scenario to occur. The player is clueless.

Too linear.

This story is a quest for revenge. I don't like quests for revenge.

The usual cons of Resident Evil type games:

• You spend most of your time alone wandering around solving puzzles and slashing at monsters, with an occational short interaction with the other characters and tiny pinch of story development once every few hours.
• Almost all signifigant interaction between characters happens during cutscenes.
• The awkward rotate-and-go-forward control scheme.
• Not seeing enemies because of camera angles, and getting attacked from off screen.